01 February 2016

Effortless Sunday

This afternoon, I wanted to take some pretty photos. So I headed to my favorite nursery, which has beautiful plants and a beautiful shop with new and vintage finds. I love how the painted door is placed sideways.

I love their living room. The walls look like old adobe, and the floors look like cement.

I love that they have botanical prints out for spring and faux eggs.

That's a sweet sign, but a little too threadbare for my taste.

The person that decorates this shop is really talented, and makes it look effortless. You feel like you are in someone's home, though years ago, it was the owner's of the nursery's home.

Over here, I loved this cart vignette with the wrought iron scale weighing "birds" and topiaries.

I also love all the various shades of gray in this photo.

On the way back, I stopped and bought a bunch of flowers for the table.

Next, I made this simple chocolate cake with a box mix. I substitute half the water with rum, which gives it subtle added flavor. It has five layers, but it is made with a Wilton set of five pans, which makes it so effortless, and it only takes one box of cake mix to fill five pans. The cake fits perfectly on this tiny glass cake stand.

Welcome to our vintage 1940s cottage fixer: built when homes were a big petite 1000 square feet with sleeping porches for summer cool. I adore romantic, vintage, a ruffle of French, Nordic, and Swedish country with a sprinkle of cottage glam: a relaxed whimsical, elegance. It's our home, and there is painting, music, gardening, creating, living, kitties, french poodles, (and a pug)...imperfect with luster.

Good morning darling Su !What lovely shop your favourite nursery is, what a lovely way they use to show their plants, their living room is so beautiful !Your chocolate cake is truly ... gorgeous, what a tenptation !

Have a new week blessed with joy, sweetie,sending love and gratitude to youDany

Su to wander around the home and see all the lovely items for sale must be enchanting, the photo with the scale you captured lovely tonal greys. Yum your cake looks pretty, all those layers just satisfy the sweet tastes! Come visit and meet Alfred.xoxo,Vera

Thank you, Kerrie, I am the only one who eats chocolate cake, and I usually crave it once or twice a year. Unfortunately, my scratch chocolate cakes, unlike other types that I have made, have not come out well. I think I do something wrong. It is either not chocolate enough or not right do to a mistake. xoox Su

Love how imspired you were with this home shoot, and I too would have loved to have wondered about.Your cake looks divine, I hope you save me a piece.I am inspired to make a 5 layer fudge cake, rum I'm flavor.

Oh I love the photos, Su! What a fun and charming place. That cake looks fabulous. I'll have to check out the Wilton set of pans, for I'd love to make more layers without having to slice them apart - which is always a failure. :-)

Thank you, Judy. They work great. A couple of months ago, I bought them for making a birthday cake, so I have used them a few times. This time I used a mixed and they rose a little curved so I trimmed the top to make it flat, but other than that, it is so simple. I use to do the layer cake by cutting too, and I would so often crack a layer or two. xoxo Su

I have to say that I didn't even see the lump, until I looked at the photo. :) I thought it was fine, because I made it the day before. Oh, and I loved that door, but had to resist, because I have no room. xoox Su

I adore going to places like this! In fact, I have been yearning to hit a fun nursery in our area that has décor as well. A half an hour away and I have been super busy this week. Maybe I'll make it there next week. It ties me over till Spring.hugs,Jann

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Christmas 2016

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Welcome to our vintage 1940s cottage fixer: built when homes were a big petite 1000 square feet with sleeping porches for summer cool. I adore romantic, vintage, a ruffle of French, Nordic, and Swedish country with a sprinkle of cottage glam: a relaxed whimsical, elegance. It's our home, and there is painting, music, gardening, creating, living, kitties, french poodles, (and a pug)...imperfect with luster.